Name: Perseverance and Trust (Rebroadcast) by Blessed Meditations
Duration: 29 min 59 s
Description: November 18, 2023. Gospel Passage: Luke 18:8; Matthew 7:7; John 2:1-5. Also quoting 2 Corinthians 12:7-9. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Photo Credit: "Persistent Widow" by FreeBibleimages.org.

October 9, 2023. Gospel Passage: Luke 19:1-10. Mental Prayer Guide, Part 2 of 2. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "Christ Calling Zacchaeus" by Palma il Giovane in The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. (Wikimedia Commons)

Letting Jesus Into our Lives (Rebroadcast)

September 30, 2023. Gospel Passages: Luke 9:43b-45; John 15:1-5. Quoting from Galatians 2:20; "Does Suffering Make Sense?” by Russell Shaw; and “The Way” Point 180 by St. Josemaría Escrivá in https://escriva.org/en/camino/180 Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: “Cristo camino del Calvario" (Christ Carrying the Cross) by Titian in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. (Wikimedia Commons)

The Sense of Suffering (Rebroadcast)

October 23, 2023. Luke 1:26-38, 39-45. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "The Meeting of Mary and Elisabeth" by Carl Heinrich Bloch at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Utah. (Wikimedia Commons)

Rising Up Like Mary (Rebroadcast)

November 4, 2023. Gospel Passage: Luke 14:1, 7-11. Quoting from: "About the Holy Spirit" by Francisca Javiera Del Valle (Scepter, 1998) and "Friends of God" Point 228 by St. Josemaría Escrivá in https://escriva.org/en/amigos-de-dios/228. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "The Meal in the House of the Pharisee" (Le repas chez le pharisien) by James Tissot in the Brooklyn Museum. (Wkimedia Commons)

Being First To Be Last (Rebroadcast)

November 14, 2023. Gospel Passage: John 1:39-42. Also quoting from Acts 16:13-15 and "The Forge" Point 1 by St. Josemaría Escrivá in https://escriva.org/en/forja/1. Referring to app: https://ipraywiththegospel.org This podcast by Msgr. Fred Dolan originally appeared on the St. Josemaria Institute Podcast in https://stjosemaria.org/day-of-recollection-november-year-a and on November 1, 2021 © St. Josemaria Institute. Rebroadcasted by permission. Photo Credit: "Silhouette of man standing between trees facing sunlight" by Aaron Burden on Unsplash.

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Our Vocational Sense of Life (Rebroadcast)

November 18, 2023. Gospel Passage: Luke 18:8; Matthew 7:7; John 2:1-5. Also quoting 2 Corinthians 12:7-9. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Photo Credit: "Persistent Widow" by FreeBibleimages.org.

Perseverance and Trust (Rebroadcast)

November 16, 2023. Gospel Passage: Luke 17:20-25. Quoting from "The Way" Points 752, 253, and 17 by St. Josemaría Escrivá in https://escriva.org/en/camino/752; https://escriva.org/en/camino/253 and https://escriva.org/en/camino/17. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "Bergpredigt im Schwarzwald" (Sermon on the Mount in the Black Forest) (detail) by Rudolf Yelin der Ältere in the Protestant church in Reinerzau, Germany. (Wikimedia Commons)

Living the Eternal Moment

November 20, 2023. Gospel Passage: Matthew 5:1-12. Quoting from "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yates in https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming and "The Way" Point 301 and "Friends of God" Point 257 by St. Josemarîa Escrivá in https://escriva.org/en/camino/301 and https://escriva.org/en/amigos-de-dios/257 Meditation with Fr. Gavin Jennings in "Be Silent" on Spotify.  Image: "Saints Michael and Francis" by Juan de Flandes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. (Wikimedia Commons)

Priest's Note: As we look on, apparently helpless, as terrible wars take place in the Ukraine and in Israel, the Feast of All Saints reminds that, in the words of St. Josemarîa, "these world crises are crises of saints."

A Crisis of Saints

November 29, 2023. Gospel Passage: Luke 21:12-19; Luke 1:37-38. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Photo Credit: "Holding Hands" by Jon Tyson on Unsplash.

Contemplative Prayer and Freedom (Rebroadcast)

December 21, 2023. Gospel Passage: Luke 2:1-5. Quoting from the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation "Christus Vivit" by Pope Francis dated March 25, 2019 in https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20190325_christus-vivit.html and  "Apostolic Letter on the 150th Anniversary of the Proclamation of Saint Joseph as Patron of the Universal Church, Patris Corde (With a Father's Heart)" by Pope Francis dated December 8, 2020 in https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_letters/documents/papa-francesco-lettera-ap_20201208_patris-corde.htm. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "Sagrada Familia del pajarito" (The Holy Family with a Little Bird) by  Bartolomé Esteban Murillo in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. (Wikimedia Commons) O Antiphon, December 21: O Morning Star (Jeremiah 23:5; Zechariah 3:8, 6:12), splendor of light eternal (Habakkuk 3:4; Wisdom 7:26; Hebrews 1:3) and sun of righteousness (Malachi 3:20): Come and enlighten those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death (Psalm 107:10; Luke 1:78).

Dec. 21: Family and Fraternal Love (Rebroadcast)

December 28, 2023. Gospel Passages: Matthew 2:13-18: Matthew 5:45; 1 John 1:5-7. Quoting St. Quodvultdeus on the Holy Innocents. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "Massacre of the Innocents" by Guido Reni in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna (National Art Gallery of Bologna), Italy. (Wikimedia Commons)

Dec. 28: The Holy Innocents (Rebroadcast)

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Perseverance and Trust (Rebroadcast)

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